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Communication

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a systemic and transactional process where we simultaneously act as senders and receivers and use verbal and nonverbal symbols to encode and decode messages as they travel across a channel. The entire process is affected by both social, phychological and physiological noise and by the cultural, social physical and chronological context
All in effort to create shared meaning

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Perception Process

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Selection: What you actually decide to focus on
Organization:arrange things in someway that is meaningful (mentally fitting people in your brian, he’s mean, he’s nice, etc.)
Interpretation: Assign meaning, but it might not be accurate
Negotiation: When you actually go out and interact with someone, check in with the person

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Paul Rankins Study of Communication

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Talking: 30%
Writing: 9%
Reading: 16%
Listening: 45%

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Listening Process: Alder, Beebe

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  1. Hearing/Selecting: non-verbals you want to attend to, hearing is physiological where listening is psychological
  2. Attending: deciding what to focus on
  3. Understanding: interpretation, deciding what to focus on
  4. Responding: Do something to let the person know you are listening, could include asking for clarification letting them know you don’t understand
  5. Remembering
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Verbal (words) & Vocal (voice)

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Speaking

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Non-Verbal (no words) & Vocal (voice)

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Paralanguage, vocalics, tone, inflection, rate, volume fillers

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Verbal (words) & non-vocal (no voice)

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Writing, ASL

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Non-verbal (no words) & non-vocal (no voice)

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Facial expression, proxemics, posture, olifactics, gestures, eye contact, physical environment, appearance, artifacts, chronemics, kinesics, territory

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Intimate Space Zone
Personal Space Zone
Social Space Zone
Public Space Zone

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0-18 inches
1.5-4 feet
4-12 feet
12-

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Principles of Nonverbals

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They exist
They have value
Ambiguous
Culturally Bound
Primarily relational
-express how we feel but can also express content
-emblems are gestures that have direct verbal translations such as the “okay” hand signal
-illustrators: simple movement of hands and arms to emphasize message

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What makes relationship interpersonal

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-Quantitatively: Takes place between 2 people
-Qualitatively:
Uniqueness: How we act with our best friend, I know you, you know me, we have our own connection that is different than anyone elses
Irreplaceable:
Interdependence: depend on each other
Disclosure: how much you reveal about yourself
Intrinsic Reward: Fulfillment, feeling happy and rewarded, get something out of the relationship, the relationship itself is a reward

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Self

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An ever-changing systems of perspectives that is formed and sustained in communication with ourselves and others

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Self-Concept

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The relatively stable set of perceptions you hold of yourself at a given time

  • Does not exist at birth, but evolves
  • Resists change
  • Subjective
  • Healthy self concept is flexible
  • Not only determines how you see yourself in the present bu also can affect future behavior
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Self-Concept Dimensions:

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Physical appearance, skills, social talents, roles, intellectual traits, emotional states, etc. It also changes.

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Three Selves

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Material (Body), Social, & Spiritual (introspective)

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Social/Public Self vs. Spiritual/Private Self

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Social Public Self is your presenting self, or your public image-the way we want to appear to others
Spiritual Private self is your perceived self-the person you believe yourself to be in moments of honest self-examination

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Self-esteem

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How you evaluate yourself

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Reflected Appraisal Theory

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We figure out who we are by how others treat us

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Significant other

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Person whose opinions we especially value. General other is society

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Social Comparison Theory

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We figure out who we are by comparing ourselves to others

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Types of Social Comparisons

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  • We decide whether we are superior or inferior

- We decide whether we are the same as or different from others

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Reference Groups

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Groups who plan an important role in shaping our view of ourselves

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Self-fulfilling Prophecy

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Occurs when a person’s expectations of an event influence the outcome.
-Self-imposed or other-imposed

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Changing Self-concept

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  • Need a realistic perception of yourself
  • Realistic expectations
  • Will and skill to change
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Perception
Observe the world to make sense of it
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Perception Process
1. Selection: Limit frame of reference, choose, what are you focusing on/taking in? Neglect others when you take in 2. Organization: Fill in the blanks, assume, arrange in meaningful way 3. Interpretation: Assign/ attribute meaning 4. Negotiation: Share your interpretations, check in, learn, see where they're coming from because they are sane
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Influences on Perception
- Fatigue - Hunger - Senses - Age - Health - Culture - Social Roles - Self-Concept
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Perception Barriers
- Judge ourselves more charitably than others - Influenced by what is most obvious/ignore details - Cling to first impressions/hold on to preconceptions and stereotypes - Assume others are similar to us - Focus on the negative - Over-generalizing - Preferring simple explanations - See only the good or bad
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Improving Perceptions
- Increase understanding of perception process - Check our perceptions with perception check statement: 1. describe behavior (who, what, when) 2. provide 2 possible interpretations for behavior 3. request feedback/clarification
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Symbolic
Arbitrary, ambiguous, and abstract representation of a phenomenon -meanings are in people, not words, and we use symbols to communicate meaning
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Rule Governed
Patterned ways of behaving and interpreting behavior - syntax: punctuation, grammar, arranging words - semantics: governs words meaning - phonetics: how to say words (phonics) - can get over rule governed rules with bffs because create new language
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Subjective
With bias, in the mind, personalized
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Bypassing
Same words, different meanings - process when we become confused about words meanings. Ex. safe could mean not harmed, or a chest - -equivocal terms->ambiguous->bypassing - equivocal terms are ambiguous language which leads to bypassing
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Equivocal terms
Words that have more than one commonly accepted definition - equivocal terms->ambiguous->bypassing - equivocal terms are ambiguous language which leads to bypassing
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Ambiguous
Subject to multiple meanings - equivocal terms->ambiguous->bypassing - equivocal terms are ambiguous language which leads to bypassing
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Abstraction
Removed from concrete reality - High level abstraction: Vague - Low level abstraction: concrete - abstraction (abstract), the lower the less abstract
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Arbitrary
Random or not necessary - No connection to words we use to their meanings, desk could be fjdlksafjsd - allow ourselves to feel harmed by language but meaning doesn't exist on its own
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Euthemism
Pleasant terms substituted for blunt ones | -ex "thats interesting" for "thats terrible" "casualty"
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Relative language
Gain their meaning by comparison | -"Big, soon"
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Static Evaluation
The mistaken assumption that people are consistent and unchanging-> IS -Jason IS mean
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Polorization
Describing and evaluating what you observe in terms of extremes -dichotomy, one or the other
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Biased language
Terms that are racist, sexist, etc.
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It Statement
Avoids responsibility for ownership of a message
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But statement
Cancel out the thought that proceeds it
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Symbols
Represent things, not the actual things, represent our thoughts
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Noise
Interference, can be psychological noise-mental noise, or physiological noise-hungry, tired, sick
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Questions
Can be a linguistic way to avoid making a declaration. | -"Do you want to go to a movie?"
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You Language
Expresses judgement of the other person | -Cause defensiveness
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Language
Provides a more accurate and less provocative way to express a complaint
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We Language
Allows people to focus on the issue together
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Behavioral Description
Who, What, When
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I language
Allows you to concentrate on the behavior and take responsibility for your own feelings - sharing your own feelings and responses to a situation rather than making judgments and accusations - lets other person to respond to your concern rather than feeling defensive
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I Language Statement
1. complete behavioral description (who, what, when) 2. statement of your true feelings (not evaluations or intentions) 3. consequences to you of the behavior and/or the feelings. Consequences are past events- something that has already happened as a result of the behavior
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I Statement: "You don't care about my feelings"
I felt hurt when I saw you in the restaurant with your old boyfriend. I wondered if you might want to get back together with him.
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Nonverbal Communication
Everything except words
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Social Distance
4 feet- 12 feet
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Gestures
Movement of the body and arms
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Culture
Traditions, influences, etc. of a group. Cultures have different nonverbal languages as well as verbal ones.
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Emblems
Have a direct verbal translations, "OK" hand signal
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Vocal, nonverbal communication
Paralanguage
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Proxemics
Space
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Nonverbal communication is primarily
Relational
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Communicate both dominance and submission
Eyes
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Distance 0-18 inches
Intimate
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Seven Functions of Nonverbal
* All not mutually exclusive- they don't stand on their own 1. Regulating- determine who gets to talk 2. Repeating- repeat the verbal 3. Substitute- a point 4. Compliment- if angry you yell, it compliments/works with the verbal message 5. Accenting- highlighting/emphasizing the verbal, hitting the table to show anger 6. Contradicting- "I'd love to go" in a mean tone 7. Deceiving- leakage: your body doesn't like to lie and it sends messages/ cues that stand out when you're lying
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"Um"
Disfluency
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Nonverbal vs. Language
Continuous vs. Discreet Unintentional vs. Intentional Multi-channel vs. Single-channel
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Nonverbal Principles
- Culturally bound - Primarily relational - emblematic: direct verbal translations"OK" - illistrators: simple mvmt. of hands and arms to emphasize meaning - Exists - Has value - Ambiguous
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Illistrators
Simple movement of hands and arms to emphasize message
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Nonverbal function: "Shrugging shoulders rather than saying I don't know"
Substituting
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Nonverbal function: Mixed messages
Contradicting
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Stationary space
Territory
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TIme
Chronemics
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Body position and motion
Kinesics
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Poor listening habits
1. Insulated: Ignores undesireable information, never want to disuss some topics (tattoos with dad) 2. Ambushing: listening to gather information to attack against you later on 3. Defensive: Misinterpreting innocent comments as an attack 4. Selective: only respond to what interests you- "I'm upset because I went to the movies and saw my ex" "How was the movie" 5. Pseudolistening: pretending to listen, fake, you look like you are but you aren't 6. Insensitive: not listening to verbal cues, take message at face value "I'm fine..." "Okay great!" 7. Stagehogging: only care about yourself, interrupt
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Insulated listening
Ignores undesirable information, never discusses these (politics)
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Ambushing
Listening to gain information to attack the person later on
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Defensive
Misinterpreting innocent comments as an attack
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Selective
Only respond to what interests you. "I'm upset because I went to the movies and saw my ex" "How was the movie"
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Pseudolistening
Pretending to listen, fake, you look like you are but you aren't
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Insensitive
Not listening to verbal cues, take things as face value. "I'm fine...." "Okay great!"
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Stagehogging
Only care about what you have to say, interrupt and ignore others
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Paraphrasing
Restatement of what you heard in your own words | -restatement of thoughts and inferred feelings a person is conveying and then asking for clarification

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